A Grand Welcome Back To School

It’s the 2nd week of Year 3 Sem 1 @ NUS, been really slooow thus far. It’s probably time I start making concrete post-grad plans. I have shortlisted a few paths, mainly revolving around music and nursing. Of course.

Last week seems so surreal and distant. Memories have already receded deep into the recesses of my mind and will probably stay there for the next 50 years. That is, if I am still alive and without Alzheimer’s/dementia.

Well, it went like this. On the FIRST day of school, I was the 2nd last to reach my music lecture @ YongSiewToh. Apparently, the seminar room was too small to contain 80 people, and you know how people like to sit around the entrance and not shifting deeper in.

I had to squeeze my way through a row of students at the back to reach some vacant seats, apologizing to them while doing so. In my frantic mental state, I overlooked a HUGE black bag in my way and actually TRIPPED over it and FELL. Thus disrupting the lesson for about 15-20 seconds with my extravagantly flamboyant entrance.

Trust me to do things like that. HAHA.

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The NEXT day.

I was supposed to have a performance in school with the NUS harmonica orchestra. It was only the day before that I knew I’d be the only cellist playing and we had a cello solo part.

I was unable to attend soundcheck that day due to lectures and thus unfamiliar with the stage and the student conductor who took over.

What happened on stage that fateful evening was everything I hoped not to happen. It was extremely traumatising. I cried intermittently throughout the entire night until I fell asleep.

Thank God for giving me the courage and strength to return for rehearsal 2 days later and face the music and the orchestra once again. It certainly wasn’t the easiest thing to do, but I knew I had to.

I guess it’s about falling (not literally =P) and rising up to walk again and again, without losing an ounce of determination. Slowly but surely (I hope).

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Piano exam’s next Tuesday. It’s too soon, though I can’t wait for it to be over and to finally learn other repertoires. =)

If all goes well, I’d graduate from NUS next year with a degree and piano grade 8. I’m still deciding if I should do grade 7 theory next March??

I like to plan for my life and not to live life aimlessly. And I know that God is always there guiding my every step, watching closely over me. He knows my deepest desires and I know He wants to bring them to past. =))) I will keep trusting in Him in good days and even more so in bad days. =)))